KABUL, Afghanistan — A surging crowd of mourners on Friday touched and kissed the coffin of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, slain by a suicide bomber claiming to carry a Taliban ...

The morning after a suicide bomber killed Burhanuddin Rabbani, the former Afghan president and head of the High Peace Council, mourners gathered at his home to pay their final respects.

A surging crowd of mourners on Friday kissed the coffin of former Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani, slain by a suicide bomber claiming to carry a peace message from the Taliban.

KABUL, Afghanistan, Dec. 3 -- Four decades ago, when he was a young theology student at Kabul University, Burhanuddin Rabbani became active in the growing Islamic movement at the school.

KABUL, Afghanistan — An assassin with a bomb hidden in his turban on Tuesday killed former President Burhanuddin Rabbani, the chairman of the government’s peace council, in the latest in a ...

Burhanuddin Rabbani, a former guerrilla leader who served as Afghanistan's second president after the 1979-89 Soviet occupation, was assassinated in Kabul on Sept. 20 by a suicide bomber who ...

T he assassination of former Afghan president Burhanuddin Rabbani last month has deepened the pessimism surrounding Afghanistan's already stagnating peace process and prospects for future stability.

Like the Great and Powerful Oz, former President Burhanuddin Rabbani indulges in fiery rhetoric and delusions of grandeur as he insists from his elegant villa that he remains head of state and the ...

The latest assassination in Afghanistan illustrates the immense divides that plague the country. Foreign Policy's Anand Gopal analyzes the death of Afghan political figure Burhanuddin Rabbani ...

On Sept. 27, 1996, in Afghanistan, the Taliban, a band of former seminary students, drove the government of President Burhanuddin Rabbani out of Kabul, captured the capital and executed former ...

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) When Afghanistan”s interim government was sworn in a month ago yesterday, the ceremony included a symbolic departure from the presidential palace by former President ...